HIGH ADVENTURE LODGE SERVICE WEBSITE REDESIGN LEADERTHINK Need plans for 2009? Wal-La-Moot-Kin Lodge The O.A.’s national The art of effective Consider attending provides service to local website celebrates its management while one of the O.A. High Scout camp through 10th anniversary with developing leadership 2 Adventure programs 3 OA service grant. 6 a new design. 7 skills. Volume LXV, Issue 4 Scouting’s National Honor Society December 2008 - February 2009 National conference is seven months away Robert Mason Phil Raine By now you have probably heard about the National Order of the Arrow Conference. If you haven’t, here are the details: Aug. 1-6, 2009 at Indiana University in Bloomington. The conference fee of $395 includes all of your training materials, activities, food, and housing for the six-day conference. When you register to attend NOAC with your council contingent or as staff, you will also receive a promotional patch! The NOAC official slogan is “The power of one.” If you are looking for fund-raising or promotional ideas, the National Events Photo courtesy of Indiana University Promotions Team is putting the final touches Indiana Memorial Union at the Indiana University on two guides to help your lodge: a promotions contingent leaders. Everyone should also check Lodge Contingent Leader, or Lodge Adviser resource packet and a fundraising guide. Stay out the promotional video to see what a NOAC for more information on how you can sign up tuned to the national OA Web site for updates. is all about. You can also register online to be a to attend this great event. The next national View the OA Website at www.event.oa-bsa.org staff member. conference will not be until 2012, so every for more information and details about NOAC. Now is the time to register with your council’s Arrowman should take advantage of this There is information for Arrowmen, parents, and NOAC contingent. Talk to your Lodge Chief, opportunity. See you there! Lodge members mentor for Scoutreach event Scouting and the Order of the Arrow. Arrowmen also Gay Hanson treated the Scoutreach units to some tasty s’mores. The Jaccos Towne Lodge program of the For some, eating the chocolate, marshmallow, Crossroads of America Council expanded its and graham cracker delight was a first-time Scoutreach mentoring in 2008. The lodge invited experience! members of the Indianapolis Scoutreach units to join Arrowmen continued mentoring by sitting Arrowmen at Camp Kikthawenund for a weekend on Boards of Review for eligible Scouts. This of camping and American Indian events. introduced the Scouts to the new Board of Review Attendees participated in a variety of activities experience. Scoutreach adults were given new that included tomahawk throwing, archery, lacrosse, insights on the advancement process and on holding races, and fire building. Arrowmen were committed Boards of Review throughout the weekend to working with Scoutreach The entire Fall Fellowship experience provided the unit members by teaching new skills and helping Scoutreach participants with a pattern for planning Scouts to practice these skills. All participants their own future events. In addition, Arrowmen took enjoyed the weekend events. advantage of the weekend to offer future assistance The lodge leadership visited the Scoutreach and to extend invitations to Scoutreach units to campsite and talked with the youth and adults about participate in the events and activities of their home districts. As always, the goal of the Fall Fellowship weekend was fellowship, training, and fun. There was little doubt that Arrowmen and Scoutreach participants achieved that goal! Visit http://www.oa-bsa.org/programs/ scoutreach/ to learn more about the Scoutreach mentoring program and how your lodge can start a program. CHIEFLY SPEAKING Need an adventure in 2009? Do you need an escape from that 9-5 job, summer classes or the monotony of staring out of your bedroom window longing for something new? If your answer is yes, the Order of the Arrow has the answer for you. Each summer, the Order of the Arrow offers a myriad of High Adventure opportunities to meet your summer needs. Why not satisfy your appetite by going for a plunge in the Atlantic Ocean with the Ocean Adventure at the Florida Sea Base. If hiking is your passion, what better place to go than the Philmont Scout Ranch where you can hike the same trails as your Scoutmaster or Scouting ancestors did as a part of your Trail Crew experience. Brothers, Have you ever thought about what Native Americans and early explorers did to become avid I write to you in a “new day” for the Order of traders. Maybe the OA Voyage at Northern Tier is the Arrow and for the Boy Scouts of America. for you. Whatever your summer aspirations may places you with people, who want to do something We stand at a historical place in time. This past be, these National High Adventure bases have put different. It’s not everyday that you can tell your summer, you helped us complete one of the largest together a multitude of options for you. friends that you climbed into Cypher’s Mine, conservation service projects in our history with Along with your one week trek designed by you, watched the Northern Lights from a canoe or went ArrowCorps5; now we are busy preparing for the each Arrowmen will be afforded the opportunity scuba diving in the Florida Keys. 100th Anniversary of Scouting in America. to leave their mark by helping to improve portage These programs help to insure that the future Millions of people watched and read about the trails, backpacking trails or coral reefs. Aside from of Scouting has a place to live, work and expand. 3,600 Arrowmen who gave up a week or more providing a good deed to each high adventure base, This summer, try something new or do something of their summer to improve our national forests every participant will have the opportunity to work you thoroughly enjoy. Take advantage of your and create new recreation opportunities for closely with Arrowmen from across the country, Order of the Arrow High Adventure opportunities. adventure-seekers across the nation. Our impact who have similar interests. For more information about these High Adventure was obvious to all by the end of the summer as You may be thinking that this is a daunting task programs, please visit www.adventure.oa-bsa. the chief of the Forest Service, Gail Kimbell, but it is an experience unlike any other afforded org or talk to your lodge leadership. Your destiny remarked, “What you all have done in these five you in Scouting. It takes you out of your world and awaits you. national forests is the kind of thing that you’ll bring your grandchildren back to look at. You’ve Survey: Analyzing the OA made a difference on the land and the American of lodges utilize the opportunities at Boy Scout people thank you.” Tom Eliopoulos summer camps to convert Ordeal members to While ArrowCorps5 received great media Question: Is anyone else in your immediate Brotherhood membership. However, of those coverage throughout our country, the phenomenon family a member of the Order of the Arrow? lodges that do not use this oppurtunity, nearly 28 continues as thousands of Arrowmen work Responses: A majority of Lodge Chiefs reported percent failed to meet the Brotherhood conversion tirelessly to make their own communities a that others in their families were members. requirement for Quality Lodge recognition better place to live. Whether it is through service Considering the high level of commitment required the previous year. Summer camp is a valuable projects, sharing their leadership with the people of Lodge Chiefs, these results may suggest that opportunity to reach out to Arrowmen, reignite around them, or just living the Obligation and family plays an important role in motivating these their interest in the Order of the Arrow, and solidify the Admonition in their daily lives, there is no young men to become more highly involved with their understanding of our principles through question that members of the Order of the Arrow the program. Scouting has long been considered Brotherhood membership. All lodges should be bring a great gift to our world. Combined with our a family affair, and it appears that the OA may be encouraged to actively work with their council principle of youth leadership, the opportunities as well. camps to achieve these goals. available to members of Scouting’s honor society Questions: Does your lodge offer the are limitless. Brotherhood ceremony at summer camp? Did Note: Last fall, the National Bulletin conducted During the past six years, I have been able to your lodge meet the Brotherhood requirement an online survey of 68 youth Arrowmen who served experience incredible opportunities in the Order. I for achieving Quality Lodge last year? as Lodge Chiefs in 2008. This data was used as the am certainly a better person for that. It is an honor Responses: Current data suggest that a majority basis for the preceeding analyses. to stand among you, my brothers. It has been an unfathomable delight to lead you in 2008. I am 5 proud to call myself an Arrowman. Highest Lodge attendance at ArrowCorps Cahuilla Lodge of California Yours in Brotherhood, Inland Empire Council # 45 had the highest attendance at ArrowCorps5. Throughout the entire project, more than 3,600 Arrowmen and staff participated in the largest Jake Wellman service project conducted by the National Chief Boy Scouts of America since World War II. www.oa-bsa.org 2 Scouting’s National Honor Society Capp becomes Distinguished Eagle Scout James Tarbox the local and national levels.